Drift 0.1.0-beta.1.3

Highlights

• DWG import. File › Import reads AutoCAD DWG files (R14 to 2018) as editable geometry, with layers, blocks, hatches, text, dimensions and layouts, the same as DXF. DWG files can also be underlays. It's read-only: Drift doesn't save DWG.
• Perpendicular and tangent helpers for the line tool.
  • Snaps, AutoCAD-style: the foot of a perpendicular, and tangent points on circles and arcs.
  • Guides, SolidWorks-style: drawing on from a line or arc follows the perpendicular or tangent.
  • With auto relations on, the matching Perpendicular or Tangent relation is added.
  • Turn them on or off with Perpendicular & tangent in the status bar.
• Selection filters for annotations and text. The Select tool's filter adds Annotations and Text. Drag boxes now pick dimensions, notes, marks and text too: a window takes what's fully inside, a crossing box what it touches.
• Construction geometry on sheets. Each view has a Construction switch under Show. It's off by default; when on, construction lines print as light hairline dashes, following the sheet's colour setting.
• Fixes:
  • Moving a hatched shape over another no longer crashes Drift. If Drift ever does quit unexpectedly, it now writes a crash log to send with a bug report.
  • Corners that sit on an arc's centre point can be filleted and chamfered.
  • Tangent arcs and lines start from partial ellipses and pen curves.
  • Adding a relation moves only what it relates, not the whole sketch.
  • Extending an arc stops at the nearest crossing, and offsetting a circle leaves no stray points.
• Reporting bugs: GitHub issues now have Bug and Feature templates.

What's Changed

• Sheets: show construction geometry per view by @chrisplange in #60
• Read-only DWG import through acadrust by @chrisplange in #61
• README: link the website by @chrisplange in #62
• Perpendicular and tangent snaps and guides for the line tool by @chrisplange in #63
• Moving a hatch over another no longer drags the other's outline; log panics by @chrisplange in #64
• Selection filters for annotations and text; boxes pick them by @chrisplange in #65
• Fillet and chamfer corners that sit on an arc's centre by @chrisplange in #66
• Tangent arcs and lines from partial ellipses and pen curves by @chrisplange in #67
• Issue templates: Bug and Feature by @chrisplange in #68
• Extend arcs to the nearest crossing; offset circles without stray points by @chrisplange in #76
• Adding a relation moves what it relates, not the whole sketch by @chrisplange in #77
• Version 0.1.0-beta.1.3 by @chrisplange in #78

Full Changelog: v0.1.0-beta.1.2...v0.1.0-beta.1.3

Drift 0.1.0-beta.1.2

Highlights

• AI assistants in your open drawing. With Edit › Preferences › General › Let AI assistants edit the open drawing on, Claude and other assistants work through drift-mcp on the drawing in your Drift window.
  • You watch each change as it's made.
  • Each change is one undo step, labelled "Assistant: …".
  • You can keep drawing alongside it.
• Drift script. An assistant, or you, can describe a drawing by intent in one go. For example: rooms with walls, doors and windows placed in them, a grid, and hatches. The result is real, constrained geometry you can keep editing.
• Dimensions and notes for some views only. In the Inspector, Show › In views keeps a note or dimension to the views it belongs to, like a note meant only for a detail. It stays on the canvas.
• Project title blocks. File › Drawing settings › Project holds the project's name, number, client, address and company, shared by every sheet's title block. There's a new Architectural set of title block fields, and a Status per sheet (For review, For permit, For construction…).
• Steadier fillets. Dragging a filleted sketch no longer turns arcs inside out or thins its arms. A drag that can't keep the shape is refused instead.
• View crops at a keystroke. Shift+Alt+B shows or hides views' crops and names, and view crops now snap.
• The guide now describes Drift as beta throughout.

What's Changed

• Project-wide title block fields (format 30); view crops snap by @chrisplange in #49
• Dimensions and notes drawn in some views only (format 31) by @chrisplange in #50
• Add the live link: assistants edit the drawing open in Drift by @chrisplange in #51
• Website: Beta 1.1, and the site's address from SITE_URL by @chrisplange in #52
• Shift+Alt+B shows or hides view crops by @chrisplange in #53
• Keep filleted sketches in shape while dragging by @chrisplange in #54
• Drift script: intent-level drawing in one run_script call by @chrisplange in #55
• Website: the scroll drawing becomes a backdrop, ending on a rowhouse by @chrisplange in #56
• Drop the alphas from the docs: old-licence notes and alpha wording by @chrisplange in #57
• Version 0.1.0-beta.1.2 by @chrisplange in #58
• Website: What's new for Beta 1.2 by @chrisplange in #59

Full Changelog: v0.1.0-beta.1.1...v0.1.0-beta.1.2

Drift 0.1.0-beta.1.1

Drift's first beta

Beta 1.1 is the first beta release, and the first under the Functional Source License 1.1 (FSL-1.1-ALv2). You may use, change and share Drift for anything except a competing product. Each version also becomes Apache-2.0 two years after release.

Highlights

• Views on the canvas, Revit-style.
  • Define views in the sketch as named crops, and show or hide their crops and names.
  • Place them on sheets. Reframing a view updates every sheet it's on.
  • Views have their own layer visibility.
  • Section and elevation marks link to their views, and read their view and sheet numbers ("1 / A-101"). Right-click a mark and choose Make view to create its view.
• Sheets.
  • Canvas tabs switch between Model and each sheet (A-101, A-102 and so on), with + for a new sheet.
  • On a sheet, the tool rail has sheet tools, and the Inspector edits the picked view or the sheet.
  • Add view lets you drag a view's crop in the model; it's placed on the sheet in free space, at a standard scale.
  • Sheets can be reordered and duplicated, and you can choose which go into a PDF.
  • New Colours setting for output: colour, greyscale, or black & white with fills in grey, as CAD's monochrome plot style. Saved per sheet; the sheet preview shows it.
• A new look. A polish pass over the theme, panels, menus, dialogs, icons and canvas overlays, with annotation style overrides.
• Draw with AI. drift-mcp is a new MCP server that lets AI assistants such as Claude create, constrain, render and check Drift drawings. See docs/ai.md to connect it.
• Fills and hatches follow their outlines through every edit, including moves, rotate, mirror, trim, fillet and undo.
• No more flash on startup when Drift's window was last left maximised.
• Third-party notices for the fonts and libraries Drift is built with now ship with it (About › Licences).

What's Changed

• Ship third-party notices for bundled fonts and crates by @chrisplange in #32
• Keep fills and hatches on their areas through every edit by @chrisplange in #33
• Print sheets in colour, greyscale or black & white by @chrisplange in #34
• License Drift under FSL-1.1-ALv2 by @chrisplange in #35
• Stop the window flashing when Drift starts maximised by @chrisplange in #36
• Add drift-mcp: an MCP server so AI assistants can draw in Drift by @chrisplange in #37
• UI polish: a consistent, quieter interface, and per-object annotation styles by @chrisplange in #38
• Views on the canvas: model views with crops, placed on sheets by @chrisplange in #40
• Sheets: canvas tabs, sheet tools, the Inspector on sheets, numbers, and Add view by @chrisplange in #41
• Add the Drift website (Astro, Cloudflare Pages, web app at /app) by @chrisplange in #42
• Views: per-view layer visibility (format 28) by @chrisplange in #43
• Sheets: reorder, duplicate, and choose the sheets for a PDF by @chrisplange in #44
• Marks linked to views (#45, brought to main) by @chrisplange in #48
• Version 0.1.0-beta.1.1 by @chrisplange in #46

Full Changelog: https://github.com/chrisplange/Drift/commits/v0.1.0-beta.1.1